A court in southern Russia has
sentenced three young women to brief jail terms for making a video
showing them twerking next to a World War II memorial.
Russia
celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Allies' victory in the World War
II next month, an emotionally charged holiday the Kremlin has been
using for propaganda purposes.
The sentencing in the
Novorossiysk district court of a 19-year-old woman to 15 days in jail
and two women in their 20s to 10 days comes after prosecutors launched a
probe into a video showing a group of women twerking next to the
memorial on the Black Sea. Twerking is a sexually provocative dance
involving thrusting of the hips.
Prosecutors
said in a statement Saturday that five women were found guilty of
"hooliganism" and two of them were spared jail because of poor health.
Hooliganism is the charge that sent two members of punk band Pussy Riot
to prison for two years for an impromptu protest at Moscow's main
cathedral in 2012.
Prosecutors in Novorossiysk also
said they were pressing charges against the parents of one underage girl
who was twerking with the others girls for "the failure to encourage
the physical, intellectual, physiological, spiritual and moral
development of a child."
This is a second twerking scandal in Russia in less than two weeks.
Investigators
last week launched a probe into a dance school in the city of Orenburg
after a YouTube video of female school girls dressed as bees and
twerking in a sexually suggestive Winnie the Pooh routine sparked
outrage. The dance school was temporarily shut down while officials in
this southern city not far from the Kazakh border ordered an inspection
of all dance schools in the region.
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